Pedicle complex tissue flap transfer for reconstruction of duplicated thumbs with unequal size
De-Hua Wang, Gui-Ping Zhang, Zeng-Tao Wang, Meng Wang, Qin-Yi Han, Fan-Xiao Liu
De-Hua Wang, Zeng-Tao Wang, Meng Wang, Department of Hand and Foot, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan 250021, Shandong Province, China
Gui-Ping Zhang, Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250000, Shandong Province, China
Qin-Yi Han, Department of Hand and Foot, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan 250021, Shandong Province, China
Fan-Xiao Liu, Department of Orthopaedics, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan 250021, Shandong Province, China
Author contributions: Liu FX, Wang DH, and Han QY designed the research study; Wang DH, Zhang GP, Wang ZT, Wang M, Han Q, and Liu FX performed the research; Liu FX and Han QY analyzed the data; Wang DH, Zhang GP, Wang ZT, Wang M, Han QY, and Liu FX wrote the manuscript; Liu FX and Han QY contributed equally in the planning, construction, and writing of the manuscript.
Supported by the China Scholarship Council, No. 201808080126 (to Liu FX).
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Biomedical Ethic Committee of Shandong Provincial Hospital (Approval No. 2021-018).
Informed consent statement: Written consent was obtained from the patients’ parents for the purpose of publication of case details and images.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Qin-Yi Han, MD, Doctor, Department of Hand and Foot, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, No. 324 Qingwuweiqi, Jinan 250021, Shandong Province, China.
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Received: July 11, 2021
Peer-review started: July 11, 2021
First decision: August 18, 2021
Revised: August 22, 2021
Accepted: October 27, 2021
Article in press: October 27, 2021
Published online: December 16, 2021
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